Cleaning and polishing composition



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR G. HOPKINS, OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.

CLEANING- ANZD POLISHING COMPOSITION.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR G. Horxms, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Sangamon and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Cleaning and Polishing Composition, of which the following is a description.

The object of my invention is to produce a cleansing and polishing compound for cleaning and polishing varnished and enameled surfaces, metals, glass, etc.

The composition consists of an intimate mixture comprising benzin or gasolene, which acts as a cleaner and prevents wax or the like from adhering to the surface which is being cleaned; whiting, which acts as a cleaner, burnisher and polisher on the surface which is being treated in practically the same manner that rotten stone acts to rub down new varnish and give it a high gloss; water to regulate the strength of the compound and to assist in the cleaning; wax to bind together the ingredients of the compound; also to prevent scratching b the whiting and also to collect the remove dirt in the same manner that the dough in wall paper cleaner picks up the dirt; turpentine serving as a solvent and diluent of the wax; and suitable scent material to neutralize, to some extent, the disagreeable odors of the gasolene and the turpentine.

It is an objection common to many com pounds used for cleansing and polishing, that they leave on the surface being treated, a film of oil or wax which gathers dust, leaves a sticky and unclean surface and soon becomes dingy. The cleansing and polishing compound herein described is not sub ject to that objection, but on the contrary leaves clean, dry and bright the surface being treated, and leaves a polish of unusual durability.

In preparing the compound, ll prefer to use the ingredients in about the following proportions, viz:

Two and one-half pounds of finely pulverized Spanish whiting; two gallons of benzin or gasolene strained through chamois skin; two gallons of distilled water, or rain water, one pound of paraflin wax; one quart of spirits of turpentine; and one ounce of oil of citronella.

In practice I have found that the quanti- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 21, 1919.

Application filed February 11, 1919. Serial No. 276,364.

ties of ingredients enumerated will produce seventy-seven six ounce bottles of the compound.

The method of compounding is as follows: Place the Spanish whiting in a heating vessel, which I call a mixer, large enough to contain all the ingredients; in a, separate vessel boil the water and pour the bollin water over the Spanish whiting and mix tioroughly; melt the paraflin wax in another vessel and add thereto the spirits of turpentine and pour the mixed wax and spirits of turpentine into the mixer, and mix the whitin water, wax and turpentine all together wh1le still hot, then remove the mixer from the fire and stir the mixture constantly until it is cooled so that the hand can be held in it without discomfort, and then add the gaso-lene and the oil of citronella, and stir until all the ingredients are well incorporated. The compound will then be in condition for bottling, and preferably should be bottled while warm.

In using the compound the following directions will be observed:

Shake well before using; clean only a small surface at a time. Apply the compound with a soft cotton cloth, cloth that has been washed is preferred. Rub hard enough to remove the dirt. After a part of the surface has been cleaned, polish 1t with a clean, dry, soft rag; and so on until the entire surface has been cleaned and polished.

I claim:

1. The cleansing and polishing compound comprising two and a half pounds of finely pulverized Spanish whiting; two gallons of strained gasolene; two gallons of soft water; one pound of paraffin wax; one quart of spirits of turpentine, and one ounce of oil of citronella.

2. The process consistin in placing two and a half pounds of ely pulverized Spanish whiting in a heating vessel over a fire; pouring two gallons of boiling water on the Spanish whiting and mixing thoroughly; melting one pound of para wax in another vessel and adding thereto one quart of spirits of turpentine; pouring the mixed paraffin wax and spirits of turpentine into the mixed whiting and water and stirring all together while hot; removing the heating vessel from the fire and stirring the mixture constantly until it is cooled so si ed my name at Springfield, Illinois this shat thfe hand anal? be 513M thereliln without 8t day of February, A. D. 1919.

iscom ort, an t en a in to t e mixture two allons of gasolene and one ounce of oil ARTHUR HOPKINS 5 of cltronella and stirring until all the in- Witnesses:

gredients are well incorporated. W. T. Tnomn,

In witness whereof I have hereunto S. ALLYUN Tnomm. 

